Barbara Sher

The old way to live was to let necessity create your goal; the new way is to use your dream to create your goal. We have had very little practice at this new way.

I don’t believe you live the good life by doing what you can do; you live it by doing what you want to do.

The amount of good luck that comes your way depends on your willingness to act.

You’re a success every time you face down fear.

Do it first, learn how second,” one of them said to me.

Try it. Set a goal, any goal, and start doing everything you can think of to achieve it. I guarantee you, your life will change. You might not get where you thought you were going, but you could easily wind up somewhere better. You’ll get breaks you never could have planned for because you never knew they existed.

’M CONVINCED that if you don’t know what you want, something is stopping you from knowing it. Something—a hidden resistance—is making you hesitate to find your true desire and go after it. Positive thinking alone will never take you past this buried obstacle; pretending nothing is wrong won’t get you anywhere either.

Without an activity that really matters to you, you’re going to feel empty, even if you’ve set yourself up in Paradise and are living the life of the rich and famous. If you’re not involved in something you truly care about, anyplace can seem like a prison.

judgmental people always lack curiosity.

couldn’t understand why they kept having exams at all. It was quite enough to simply discover that there were so many astonishing things to learn about.